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METALLIC PASTENER. No. 251,911. Patented Jan. 3,1882,

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I T UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE MGGILL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

METALLIC FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,911, dated January 3 1882.

' Application filed November 25, 1861. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MOGILL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York city, in the county of New 5 York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Fasteners and I do hereby declare the followin g to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap and efficient fastener for fastening or binding together samples of silk, cloth, linen, and such like fibrous material, and for attaching to the same price and size tickets, tags, or labels, and to enable the same to be done without the fiber of the material bound or ticketed being out orinjured in the operation.

Myinvention is designed as an improvement on the fastener upon which Letters Patent of the United States No. 24.9,850 were granted to me November 22, 1881; and it consistsin providing the metal capsot the fasteners with ornamental tops, or tops differing in color or material from that in the body of the cap, and in fashioning the cap and attaching it to the wire shanks of the fastener in manner to admit of it being provided with such tops.

The device as described in my abovementioned patent consists of a fastener having two pin-pointed penetrating-shanks made of round flexible wire and held in separate parallel position by a sheet-metal cap, adapting the shanks to be forced sim nltaneously through the material to be bound or ticketed, each shank forcing a separate opening in the material for itself, and by reason of its pointed ends and pin-wire body forcing aside the fiber of the material in its entrance without cutting, tearing, or otherwise injuring the same, the flexibility of the wire in the shanks admitting of the same being readily folded over or clinched on the opposite sideof the material.

In the accompanying. drawings, Figure .1 represents the wire shanks of the fastener, consisting of a piece of round flexible wire pinpointed'at both ends and bent to form a staple with its top fashioned in form ofan S and folded I over at right angles from its shanks, as shown bottom of the cap, as shown in Fig. 3, which is a top view of both so connected.

Fig. 4 (B) is a top view of a struck-up or convexed crown; and Fig. 5 is a vertical crosssection of the same, taken on the line at a." of Fig. 4. The crown B is of a diameter corresponding with that of the inside of the cap in which it is placed with its convexity upward, where it covers the top of the fastener-shanks, 6 5 and the flange of the cap A is turned or folded by means of a suitable machine over upon the same, thereby locking the crown and cap together, and the flattened head of the fastenershanks between them, and the shanks themselves in the holes a a of the cap, as shown in Fig. 6, which is a top view of the device so constructed, and in Fig. 7, which is a vertical cross-section of Fig. 6, taken on the line y y of that figure.

I propose making the crown-piece B of a metal of different color from that in the cap A, to give the head an ornamental or aesthetic effect-as, for example, I may make the cap of yellow sheet-brass and the crown of silvered 8o brass or tin, which will give the fastener the appearance of having a crown of silver with a border of gold; or the crown may be made of colored sheet metal, leather, strong thick paper, or other suitable material having a name, 8 5 emblem, or advertisement printed upon it."

I do not wish to be understood as claiming herein a metallic fastener having two round wire shanks of suitable length pin-pointed at their one end and their other end closed in a 90 metal cap to hold the shanks securely in separated parallel positiont'for the same is shown and described in my Letters Patent No. 249,850, of November 22, 1881, hereinbefore referred to; but

What I do claim herein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A metallic fastener consisting of a staple made of round wire having its head flattened In testimony that I claim the foregoing I [O and its shanks pin-pointed and bent down at herewith affix my signature in the presence of right angles from its flat head and passed for two witnesses.

their entire length through two separate holes,

a a, in the bottom of a metal cap, A, and se- GEORGE W. MOGILL. cured therein by means of a crown-piece, B, and

the turned-over flange of the cap, substantially Witnesses:

as and for the purposes herein shown and de- HENRY SCOTT,

scribed. W. H. GREENLAND. 

